Teaching evolution: Promoting students’ conceptual understanding of evolutionary biology
Learn how college students understand the concept of evolution. Dr. Jeremy Hsu highlights recent research and provides practical advice for enhancing evolutionary biology instruction.
Jeremy Hsu, Assistant Professor of Biology, Chapman University
Understanding evolution is an important part of high school and undergraduate biology education. Despite its importance, however, students often struggle to understand evolution and hold misconceptions about evolution. Join Dr. Jeremy Hsu as we explore recent research that investigates how students in both undergraduate majors and non-majors introductory biology in college define and conceive of evolution at the start of the semester and what this means for instructors. We’ll go through implications and advice for instructors to promote student learning about evolution!
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About the speaker
Jeremy Hsu, Assistant Professor of Biology, Chapman University
Jeremy Hsu earned his AB in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University, where he researched how environmental changes impacted the evolutionary genetics of the tuco-tuco, a rodent from South America. Jeremy is now an Assistant Professor of Biology at Chapman University, where he conducts biology education research that examines how students learn in undergraduate biology courses and explores how different factors shape students’ experiences inside and outside the classroom. He is committed to evidence-based teaching and is involved with multiple organizations that train instructors or advance biology education research. At Chapman, he teaches courses on molecular genetics, evolution, and more. Jeremy has been recognized with teaching awards at both Stanford and Chapman University.